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Straight Foxin’

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This is house/electronic producer Retromigration’s third album in two years and feels like his best yet, like the clearest realisation of his sound — which is a blend of jazzy deep house, instrumental hip hop and electronica. Mixing jazz with club music can sometimes lead to slightly unassuming, beige music, but Straight Foxin’ successfully integrates dance floor arrangements, 4/4 beats and looping parts with either jazz samples or live instrumentation and soloing. The house tracks have a sophisticated, smokey, late night almost world-weary feel and his production approach works really well on his dubstep-paced futuroid jazz funk track “Formant.” Four inventive and, (unsurprisingly) jazz, drum & bass tracks and a couple of laid-back jazzish hip hop instrumentals perfectly round out the album.

Harold Heath

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